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The Blog for Sunday, July 07, 2013

Florida Supreme Court to determine if legislators can avoid testifying

"In what promises to be a precedent-setting ruling over whether legislators can be shielded from testifying in a redistricting case, the Florida Supreme Court has agreed to hear a redistricting challenge brought by the League of Women Voters." "State Supreme Court takes up redistricting".

Geniuses

"In the wake of the July 3 overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's Islamist president, by the country's military, two of Florida's most conservative congressmen are offering cautious support for the new regime, even as they insist the U.S. needs to reconsider its foreign aid policy." "Ted Yoho, Trey Radel Cautiously Welcome Egyptian Coup d'Etat".

Noelle Nikpour reminds us that heroes are not movie characters: "Police officers and firefighters serve their community quietly and heroically every day."

Ambulance drivers, nurses and doctors save lives in the midst of actual blood and gore, not computer generated special effects, and they do it without a movie soundtrack backing them up or the boring parts edited out. When a patient arrives in the emergency room suffering from gunshot wounds, nobody says, "This looks like a job for Superman." Real doctors and nurses get to work.

Here's the thing: Heroes aren't bulletproof. Unlike Superman, earthlings face the consequences of danger. Many thousands of Floridians have served In Iraq and Afghanistan. Just their willingness to serve makes them heroes for life.